Flite (festival-lite) is a small, fast run-time synthesis engine developed at CMU and primarily designed for small embedded machines and/or large servers. Flite is designed as an alternative synthesis engine to Festival for voices built using the FestVox suite of voice building tools.

Flite 1.4-release is now released as source. Flite offers:

Completely in C (no C++ or Scheme) for portability, size and speed

Reimplentation of the core parts of the Festival architecture (HRG) allowing close compabilility between voices built for each system.

Flite is in basically written and is in its first stages of testing before release, as free software. A small diphone voice based on the CMU KAL voice is included. along with a sample limited domain talking clock.

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